International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 12 (1989), Issue 4, Pages 729-734
doi:10.1155/S0161171289000906
A variational formalism for the eigenvalues of fourth order boundary value problems
Department of Mathematics, U.A.E. University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
Received 6 January 1987; Revised 23 March 1987
Copyright © 1989 Adnan A. Hajj. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper describes a variational approach for computing eigenvalues of a
two point boundary value problem associated with coupled second order equations to which
a fourth order linear differential equation is reduced. An attractive feature of this
approach is the technique of enforcing the boundary conditions by the variational functional.
Consequently, the expansion functions need not satisfy any of them.